Outputs (8)

Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China (2024)
Journal Article
Appleton, S., Huang, J., Lou, X., & Zhou, M. (2024). Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China. Health Economics, 33(11), 2645-2670. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4887

Using three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper examines whether financial transfers from adult children to elderly parents affect the latter's mental health. Both OLS and instrumental variable (IV) estimates show... Read More about Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China.

The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana (2024)
Journal Article
Bawuah, A., Appleton, S., & Li, Y. (2024). The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 24(4), 571-593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-024-09385-0

Whether private healthcare providers should be encouraged over public providers remains unclear. On the one hand, because private providers are profit-driven, they are more motivated to compete for demand by enhancing quality if demand is elastic. Ho... Read More about The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana.

The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest (2021)
Journal Article
Matta, S., Bleaney, M., & Appleton, S. (2022). The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest. Economics and Politics, 34(1), 253-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12197

An extensive literature has examined the economic effects of non-violent political instability events. Nonetheless, the issue of whether economies react differently over time to such events remains largely unexplored. Using synthetic control methodol... Read More about The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest.

Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Appleton, S., Song, L., & Liu, B. (2021). Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83(3), 619-640. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12410

This paper examines whether childcare choice affects the early childhood development of children aged 7-59 months. Using the data from Chinese Family Panel Surveys, we look at household choices between parental and grandparental cares and the timing... Read More about Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China.

Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention (2019)
Journal Article
Barazzetta, M., Appleton, S., & Owens, T. (2020). Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention. Journal of Development Studies, 56(3), 613-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1618450

We investigate whether changes in life circumstances lead to long-lasting changes in subjective well-being using a medical intervention that provided orthotic equipment to Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities. The intervention had a positive e... Read More about Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention.

The microeconomic impact of political instability: firm-level evidence from Tunisia (2018)
Journal Article
Matta, S., Appleton, S., & Bleaney, M. (2018). The microeconomic impact of political instability: firm-level evidence from Tunisia. Review of Development Economics, 22(4), 1590-1619. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12388

This paper explores the impact of political instability on firms in the context of Tunisia which experienced a surge in political instability events after the 2011 Jasmine revolution. Using a new dataset, we show that political instability was a majo... Read More about The microeconomic impact of political instability: firm-level evidence from Tunisia.

The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach (2017)
Journal Article
Long, W., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (in press). The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates w... Read More about The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach.

The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy (2016)
Journal Article
Matta, S., Appleton, S., & Bleaney, M. (2019). The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy. World Bank Economic Review, 33(1), 231-258. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhw059

© 2016 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK. We use Synthetic Control Methodology to estimate the output loss in Tunisia as a result of the "Arab Spri... Read More about The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy.